Peter hebert



P. HEBERT.

NUT LOCK.

(No Model.)

Patented Mar. 81, 1885.

Attorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER HEBERT, OF BURR OAK, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO B. F. ROYER, OF SAME PLACE.

NUT LOCK.

U SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,575, dated March 31, 1885.

I Application filed February 11, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER Hnnnnr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burr Oak, in the county of Jewell and State of Kansas,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in N ut-Locks and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a central transverse section, and Fig. 3 a detail view in [5 perspective, of the locking-plate.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in nutlocks for railroad-rails; and it consists in the details of construction, substantially as shown in the drawings,and hereinafter described and claimed.

In theaccompanying drawings, A B represent two sections of rail, and O D the fishplates, of the usual construction, with the exception that the plate D has an upwardly-inelined slot, a. extending through it and of sufficient length and breadth to receive a block, F, extending upwardly at an acute angle from the inner side of a locking-plate, E, said plate being cast with a base, G. After the nuts b have been screwed up tightly against the fishplate D,the plate E is placed between the nuts and the base G, coming under the lower edge thereof,as shown in Fig. l. The block F, be-

ing on an incline, and also the slot at correspondingly inclined, as the block is pressed farther into the slotthe base G will be drawn upward against the nuts, and in this position the base is firmly fastened to the lower por- 0 tion of the rail by a suitable spike driven into the sleepers or cross-ties through the notches o. By the employment of the upwardly-in elined block F, in connection with the corre spondingly inclined slot a in the fish-plate D,

the inner edge of the base G will act as a wedge as it is drawn up against the under side of the nuts, so that should the spike work loose by the jar of the rails the base G will still remain firm.

- serves in a measure to overcome the difficulty It will be noticed that on driving the plate E to place, with its upwardly-inclined block or flange F in the correspondingly inclined slot (6 of the plate D, with the base G of the plate E resting on the inclined foot 12 of the rail, the tendency of the same will be to force the fish-plate close up under the head of the rail, thus serving as a brace for said fish-' plate, thereby strengthening the junction of the rails. This is an important feature, as it of having the rails become depressed at their points of junction. Another advantage of providing the plate E with the upwardly-inelined flange F is, that it affords a retaining point for the upper edge of the plate, and, in combination with the slotted plate D, serves as a means for securely locking the two plates together. i

As ordinarily constructed it is common to have the vertical side of a nut-lock plate fit between the nuts, and to have its base come between the foot of the rail and said nuts, and such I do not claim, as the fish and nut plates are not held together, and in no instance does the nut-plate serve to force the fish-plate'close up under the head of the rail,thereby strengthening the junction of the rails.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a nut-lock, the combination, with a fishplate having an upwardly-inclined slot, of a locking-plate located between the nuts, and provided with an upwardly-inclined block engaging with the slot, and having a base which is drawn up against the under side of the nuts by the inclined slot and block, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed mynanie in the presence 0 of two witnesses.

PETER HEBERT.

Witnesses:

RIDLEY DEANS, B. F. ROYER. 

